Dollar General - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

successful that its U.S. sales reached the equivalent in today's terms of half a billion dollars by the end of the 1920s, before the Great Depression eviscerated what had become the world's biggest beauty company. Coty was a larger than... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

paradigm behind global value chains, generally a production network, suggests that firms should outsource to the countries with the lowest overall costs. (Firms could potentially source particular intermediate inputs from only one... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

into play, and people are unable to see the ethical implications of their actions because their desire to win gets in the way. The end result is deception. In business, with dollars at stake, many people will interpret situations in ways... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling

installment plan available to the average person. Between 1840 and 1890, four products—furniture, pianos, farm equipment, and sewing machines—spread credit financing through the world. In their different ways, these particular products were regarded as exempt from the... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Founder Mousumi Shaw, discovered a new market opportunity for a new jewelry & lifestyle brand appealing to changing demographics of women-self purchasers in the $53 billion dollar industry. Travelguru.com Ashwin Damera Vonkata Jarad... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

neoclassical business cycle model with heterogeneous firms and risky debt. To generate the size of spread increases observed during 2008-9, the model requires only disappointment of overoptimistic beliefs rather than large negative... View Details

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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details

26 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress

unit. "But traditionally in the US we have not placed a lot of emphasis on the role of workplace stress in the high cost of health care." In recent years, General Motors spent more on health care than it did on steel, and across... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

times. Netflix set up a $100 million fund to help creatives like actors, producers, and writers whose jobs are affected by COVID—making Netflix the likely preferred destination for future work by creatives. Walmart is paying suppliers more quickly. Costco, Whole Foods,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

1989 about service in the auto industry, Ford Motor Co.: Dealer Sales and Service, puts it best: “Nothing much has changed over 25 years. The experience is still generally awful.” Sure, there have been pockets of customer-service... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto

14 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

identity if it spills over to general consumers. "Often the lovers or haters of a product can be the canary in the coal mine—an early warning system that can alert managers to problems or identify areas where a competitor could come in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 3

each other. On the display-ad side, affected newspapers experience a decrease in display-ad rates. We also find evidence that affected newspapers are less likely to make their content available online. Finally, we estimate that Craigslist's entry leads to $5 billion in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

of the modern world's greatest Opportunists. Also of this genre, although somewhat lesser known, is Jeffrey Skilling, the Enron CEO who sold off tens of millions of dollars of stock just before Enron filed for bankruptcy, claiming he had... View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

Portrait Project

Navroz D. Udwadia

"God," it is often said of India, "must have loved the poor. He made so many of them." I want to live bravely. I want, desperately, to make a difference. I want to be generous and true yet also fierce. I want to be... View Details

06 Aug 2021
Book

Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

In the 1950s, most Americans probably couldn’t name the CEOs of the largest companies in the United States, including General Motors, United States Steel, and Standard Oil. But these days, some of the most successful businesses have... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 May 2016
First Look

May 10, 2016

property (IP) protection to safeguard their competitive advantages. However, the majority of recent patent litigation is driven by nonpracticing entities (NPEs), firms that generate no products but instead amass patent portfolios for the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2021
News

Fostering Diversity

training the next generation of leaders.” They appreciate how the Black Lives Matter movement has shined a light on both the overt and hidden racism in society. Victoria says, “It is upon all of us to do the work required to be... View Details

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

finding out how other people actually think—those other people being the customers or clients you hope to do business with. The Dollar General case has a lot to say about the political schism in America... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

05 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 5

e-books eroded publishers' profitable print formats. E-readers like Kindle, as well as Apple's iPad, that invigorated the digital book market are discussed. Also includes a general overview of book publishing including the K-12 and... View Details